In the dark.

The bright yellow candle flame is lit.

Illuminates a pair of wizened palms glowing blue-white.

In each hand, he held a small half of the candle, which was still dripping from the wax oil on his skin, solidifying into a spot of oil.

呲~

The sound of the mechanical door opening is heard on all sides.

There seemed to be a rush of footsteps.

"Lord Lawrence was intercepted and killed as he left Thousand Sails City, and the aircraft we prepared was destroyed, leaving only traces of battle at the scene, and no body was found. ”

There were some intermittent words, and the news obviously frightened the people who came to report it.

"The Garrison Department is also an archaeological association, and it can deal with Lawrence's people...... Has the CCTV video been checked?"

"The surveillance system was hacked, the footage from that time was deleted, our people didn't find the security department or the archaeological association's airboat nearby, and when they inspected the site, they didn't find any modern weapons, maybe they were the hands of people in the grotesque studio. ”

"Grotesque Studio?"

The candle flame swayed from side to side, and then stabilized again, and after a short silence, the man with the candle said,

"It's just a struggle before death, if it's really them, don't care, Lawrence won't reveal the plan whether he lives or dies, and he should help us delay time...... The director of the epidemic prevention center that Lawrence contacted before wanted to recruit him, but now it seems that it has become an uncertain factor, find someone to shut him up!"

"Understood. ”

Bow back, footsteps near and far.

"Go on!"

With a muffled shout, candles lit up one after another in the surrounding shadows.

"We walk on earth in your place, may thy kingdom come, and thy ......"

The prayers that were barely audible at first gradually turned into the terrifying whispers of Si Soso as the candle flame dispersed.

Until all the candle-bearers have their footsteps stopped, and if someone is above them, they can be seen to be standing according to a specific trajectory.

Immediately after that, there was a sudden chaotic and heavy footsteps around, like feet dragging on the ground, constantly making a "click~" sound, and not long after, within a small area barely illuminated by these candles, there were more than a dozen pairs of shoes of different sizes, and their owners were not the same whether they were dressed or tall, short, fat and thin.

If there was anything in common, it was the withered faces and dull eyes that were revealed in the candlelight, and their complexions were morbidly pale after a long stay in the darkness, like a corpse crawling out of a coffin that had not yet decomposed.

The black patches loomed under the cover of the clothes, and the heavy and dead air made people feel a chill from the bottom of their hearts.

The person holding the candle suddenly stretched out one free hand into the robe, and when he took it out, he held a few incense sticks, turned his knuckles, first broke them in the palm of his hand, then crushed them, and slowly sprinkled them on the candle flame.

With the chanting of the incantation, the incense ashes fell, and then turned into a gray mist and drifted away under the scorching flames.

Haunting the "crowd".

......

Late at night, as the temperature continues to drop, the moisture in the sleet gradually condenses, and finally turns to heavy snow at midnight.

"Hey, have you heard?"

"What?"

"Warehouse 011, warehouse 012. ”

Two lights swept left and right along the snow-covered roads in the storage area, and warehouse employees in dark green cloaks made their routine night rounds.

Due to the large number of goods and the bad weather, they were required to patrol in pairs at night to ensure that some of the facilities and equipment in the storage area would not fail due to the low temperature

The oncoming wind and snow and the shivering body made them desperately need a topic to divert their attention.

"Just those two warehouses with several big trucks? ”

"You know?"

"It happened to be my team that day, and the two warehouses you mentioned were cleaned by us. ”

"Did you see anything in the car?"

"Heh, those guys are like hiding treasures, they don't even do basic cargo registration, I remember that it seems that those cars didn't come out, they just parked in the warehouse, and those who didn't know thought those cars were goods...... You won't have any thoughts about them, right, I advise you to calm down, that's an important item specially explained by the above, we are not even allowed to get close, if you dare to go to the 'white prostitute', don't blame me for not reminding you when the time comes. ”

He knew that the guy he was patrolling with had a history of petty theft, and he would come once or twice once or twice, but that was only for a few worthless odd goods.

"It's not about this thing this time, it's that I've heard strange noises coming from warehouse 011 and 012 lately, and it seems that there are people inside. ”

"Is someone abnormal, it's strange if someone from the company doesn't make a sound when they inspect the goods?"

"Have you ever seen a company brave the snow late at night to inspect the goods?"

Patting the thin snow accumulated above his head, he took two steps closer to his companion and said in a low voice,

"Every day it's in the wee hours of the morning...... I suspect the trucks are full of people, I mean the kind of people who are used to sell on the black market, who come over at night to feed and pick up goods. ”

"I heard from the administrator that those goods are required by the Wu Group to be properly kept, is it unlikely?"

That being said, he still had in his mind the people who were completely different from ordinary drivers in temperament and eyes when they drove into the warehouse that day.

"You don't understand this, you are precisely because the Wu Group is a large consortium, and they have dozens of large warehouses, so they can do this kind of work, and ordinary forces really don't have this kind of qualifications. ”

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, in case what you say is true, if the Wu people know, they still think you are going to tell the truth, and then I will do you first." ”

"What do you think, this is the storage area, I dare to make sure that there is absolutely no ...... within two hundred meters of the surrounding area What's that?"

The words came to an abrupt halt in the middle of the sentence, and the man stared blankly ahead.

The other followed his line of sight.

In the white circle of light scattered by the lamppost, a group of ragged "refugees" were moving together, their heads hanging down, their extremely thin torsos unable to support their clothes, so they looked like a row of skeletons walking in silence.

Falling snowflakes passed through their bodies and landed at their feet, and the snow that should have been messy footprints was clean and alarming.

“FUCK! FUCK! FUCK...... What are you doing, let me go!"

His steps retreated uncontrollably, as if the cold wind blowing from the cracks of his bones was about to make his heart cold, but when he turned around, he was grabbed by his companion's wrist.

"Don't make a noise, when I participated in the event on Halloween's Day, I heard an old man say that this must be some kind of yin soldier in the story, to hook the soul, we must pretend not to see it, otherwise they will hook the soul, and you will be looking for death when you run back at this time." ”

Holding his companion's wrist tightly, he turned around as slowly as he could, turning off the searchlight,

"Now listen to me, turn your back to them, and walk back slowly. ”

"Don't lie to me......"

In desperation, he had to choose to believe, turned around, pretended that nothing had happened, and moved his steps, while pricking up his ears and listening to the voices coming from behind.

There is only the sound of the wind and the "crunch~" sound of footsteps stepping on the snow.

It should be all right, right?

Does the sound of snow stomping get their attention?

Those "people" didn't follow, did they?

The extreme fear caused a strong physiological reaction, and the man who wanted to run at first gasped for air, his forehead covered with cold sweat, his legs trembling uncontrollably, and his mind was full of the scene he had just seen.

"Hey, you have to stay calm, you'll be found by them!"

Maybe it was because he had heard the story of the Yin Soldier borrowing the Tao before, and his reaction was quite calm, but the state of the companion beside him made him worry about whether it would harm him, and while comforting, he turned to the side and tried to stay away from him.

"The soul of fear will be the cornerstone ......"

The hoarse voice came to the ears, only half of it.

Before the man who had turned around understood the meaning of the words, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of his companion next to him falling face down in the snow.

Yes, the old man's words were correct.

The people I saw just now were the Yin soldiers who hooked the soul, and once they were discovered because they were too afraid, the consequence would be that their souls would be taken away.

So as long as you keep your current state and keep going back, there will be no problem.

It's just that before he can go far, he can't take any more steps.

The reason is very simple, there is a scene very similar to what he saw just now in the direction he is facing at this moment, and through the clothes on those "people", he can barely determine that these people are the other group, and their direction of action is exactly where he is!

What to do?

Faced with this situation, he had to choose to turn around and face the warehouse on the side, but before his face turned sideways, a terrifying face covered with dark spots took up his entire field of vision.

"Ah!!h

The screams could no longer be suppressed, and when he fell backwards and fell on the snow, his body swayed, his eyes fell on the two teams of "people" again.

In a trance.

The forms of those "people" were like water mirrors thrown into stones, and they shattered in an instant.

A dozen disgusting monsters huddled together were reflected in his pupils, screaming hungrily and rushing towards him.

"The soul of fear will be the cornerstone...... Death, that is, eternity!"

The last moment of life.

He heard the demon's whisper.